Perspective/ Hindsight: Oscar De La Hoya V Floyd Mayweather

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Oscar De La Hoya - Boxer

Okay so firstly, the reason why I wanted to make this thread was to get some feed back from you guys on how you see Oscar now in your preception of him when he fought Floyd Mayweather back in 2007 (4 YEARS AGO ALREADY!! )

To explain my intentions in a bit more detail; I wanted to really understand, or gain a new understanding of what kind of condition Oscar was in for this particular fight. To be frank, just how much down the slide had Oscar gone by 2007. (...still can't believe that was 4 years ago man! )

My current (or should I say recent) understanding was that the Forbes and Pacquiao fights showed that Oscar was really slipping and thus the fight with Floyd showed that Floyd actually struggled against a fairly shot fighter.





I'll be honest, the overwhelming reason why I thought about starting this conversation was because of the 'Floyd's Greatest Win Thread'.
I wanted to 'register' that fight in particular because my understanding at the time of the fight was that Floyd was facing such a relatively big guy, who was still pretty 'elite' as far as rankings go and that his chances were much slimmer than they had been previously. It was supposed to and proved to be a pretty competitive, close(ish) fight. That made me totally believe that Floyd was a superhuman talent that was completely invincible.
However, Oscars subsequent fights painted a different picture.

I just wanted to revisit the Boxrec page Oscar De La Hoya - Boxer where you can see that his last two fights were about him as a Weltwerweight, at an advanced age and so maybe the credit that Floyd Deserves is somewhat desaturated due to Oscars poor decision to weight drain himself in his last two fights?

Waddya reckon?

I mean to be fair, no one disputes that although Oscar instigated a fight with Pacquiao at that weight, he clearly had no business fighting there.

Now I sincerely apologies for giving a thread about Oscar De La Hoya's final career faze a Mayweather/ Pacquiao undercurrent but I assume that it was inevitable and I must make clear that it isn't the point of this thread.

The point of this thread is that I wanted to develop my understanding of Oscars performance (and thus Floyd's performance) back in 2007 (Fuckin FOUR years gone by already GOD DAMIT! ) and how his subsequent fights impacted on that fight. if at all?

Kappish